Lord Of The Flies Microcosm Analysis

Golding was a part of the Royal Navy in WWII, he experienced the “evil” in man with the killing and how it affected them mentally therefore is a microcosm to boys on the island. Jack, Roger, and Ralph have lost their way of innocence, mentally turning them into their own way savages from being on the island so long and trying to survive. Golding uses Jack, Roger, and Ralph individual personalities on the island as a microcosm. In the first place, Jack represents individuals who want leadership and will do anything they can to get that leadership position. In the beginning, Jack is the director of his choir and that is when the reader first discovers his sense of power. On page 20, Ralph blows the conch and all the boys were coming together, then appeared the choir dressed alike and Jack leading makes the boys stop so that way he could go see what
Ralph in the beginning of the novel at first accepts the position as chief. However, Ralph wanted to keep order but slowly the boys starts to lose their civilization and not listen to Ralph or the conch. Trying to maintain order, Ralph said “and another thing, we can’t have everybody talking at once, we’ll have to have ‘hands up’ like at school” (33) as if they were back in school and had to raise hands so that everyone was not speaking at once. This reveals that it is all starting to fall apart, on page 91 when Jack starts to question Ralph as who he is, as if he wasn’t the chief. But after the death of Piggy, Ralph did not know what to do or think and he could not think for himself, all he knew was to survive the savages. As Ralph is running away from the savages he was thinking “There was no piggy to talk sense” as if Ralph relied on Piggy to give him a great idea to hide, like he could not think where by himself. Ralph after a while was no longer civilized his only instinct was to